Specification

Stones: 18 pieces 3mm round peridot

Colour: yellow-green, green with a golden hue

Material: The Circle is a 950 Platinum Circle

Dimensions: 20mm X 6mm

Weight: 11.8ct total Weight

950 platinum

Josephine Leroy works with 950 platinum for her jewellery. Platinum is as rare as no other precious metal. Mostly platinum is offered in the alloy 950. This alloy consists of 95% platinum and 5% of a metal admixture and is particularly hard and resistant. Due to its exceptional toughness, there is virtually no abrasion on the jewellery pieces - the material merely shifts sideways. Moreover, hardly any other material can hold stones as securely as platinum.

Description

We use only natural gemstones that are cut to size in a complex process and sorted by hand in a multi-stage selection process. After the first multiple sorting, the stones are cut and polished into a brilliant shape, then they are sorted again according to size, colour and purity. In order to fit the stones into a circle, 18 stones must be found that differ as little as possible in appearance. This requires a very well trained eye, which can detect the finest differences. When the stones are assembled for a circle, they are carefully placed by hand into the setting and fixed like a diamond. As a rule, a maximum of 1% of the respective raw stone can be used for our precious objects. To achieve the highest possible quality, all work is done by hand and by experienced specialists. As few foreign inclusions as possible and a concise colour are the characteristics which correspond to our quality standard.

The typical colour of a peridot is orange to yellow, green, brown, violet, pink or even black transparent. It is available in all shades. Peridots are transparent and have a distinct oil sheen. The colour of peridot can be described as yellow-green, green with a golden hue, olive or bottle green, deep or simply bright light green. The amount of iron present causes the shadow and depth of green of a peridot stone; the deeper the green, the less iron is present. Peridot is one of the few gemstones that are not routinely treated. Although it is not particularly brilliant (peridots have a medium to high brilliance), the richness of its color can be extraordinary and is completely natural. Because of its rarity, peridot is not usually seen in its deeper, pure green hues, but newly discovered sources can change this. New sources are Arizona, Mexico, Oregon, Norway, Pakistan, Russia and Sri Lanka.